The 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland was a German Wafffen SS division comprising volunteers from the Netherlands. It saw action on the Easter Front during World War II. The Dutch soldiers were planned to be a part of the Nordland division but after protests from the Dutch nazi-party, National Socialistische Beweging (NSB), it was decided that they would form their own division…. Read more »
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, and, in German, as the Hitlerputsch or Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders — to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 8–9 November 1923. By midmorning on 9 November, Erich Ludendorff cried out, “Wir marschieren!” (We will march!) and Ernst Röhm force together with… Read more »
In late June 1942, the Jewish Council was informed that the Jews would have to work in labour camps in Germany. In Amsterdam, 4,000 summons were sent, but many of the summoned Jews did not report for work. As a result, the Germans rounded up 700 Jews on 14 July 1942. This group was to… Read more »
In Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps to create an incentive for prisoners to collaborate, although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos, “prisoner functionaries” and the criminal element, because regular inmates, penniless and emaciated, were usually too debilitated and wary of exposure to Schutzstaffel (SS) schemes. In the end, the camp brothels did not produce any… Read more »
Yang Kyoungjong born March 3, 1920 in the Korea Japanese Protectorate is to date the only soldier to fight on three sides of a war, and this legendary status has earned him much recognition., In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was consripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to… Read more »